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CHAPTER V. EGGS ... ... ... ... 40 



Eggs all the Year round Warmth essential to laying Forcing 

 Eggs Soft Shells Shape and Colour of Eggs The Air-bag 

 Preserving Eggs Keeping and Choosing Eggs for setting Sex of 

 Eggs Packing Setting- eggs for travelling. 



CHAPTER VI. THE SITTING HEN ... ... ... ... 48 



Evil of restraining a Hen from sitting Checking the Desire A 

 separate House and Run Nests for sitting in Damping Eggs 

 Filling for Nests Choosing their own Nests Choosing a Hen 

 for sitting Number and Age of Eggs Food and Exercise Ab- 

 sence from the Nest Examining the Eggs Setting two Hens on 

 the same day Time of Incubation The " tapping " sound 

 Breaking the Shell Emerging from the Shell Assisting tho 

 Chicken -* Artificial Mothers Artificial Incubation. 



CHAPTER VII. REARING AND FATTENING FOWLS ... ... 63 



The Chicken's firstFood Cooping the Brood Basket and Wooden 

 Coops Feeding Chickens Age for Fattening Barn-door Fat- 

 tening Fattening-Houses Fattening-Coops Food " Cram- 

 ming" Capons and Poulardes Killing Poultry Plucking and 

 packing Fowls Preserving Feathers. 



CHAPTER VIII. STOCK, BREEDING, AND CROSSING ... ... 75 



Well-bred Fowls Choice of Breed Signs of Age Breeding in- 

 and-in Number of Hens to one Cock Choice of a Cock To 

 prevent Cocks from fighting Choice of a Hen Improved Breeds 

 Origin of Breeds- Crossing Choice of Breeding Stock 

 Keeping a Breed pure. 



CHAPTER IX. POULTRY SHOWS ... ... ... ... 83 



The first Show The first Birmingham Show Influence of Shows 

 Exhibition Rules Hatching for Summer and Winter Shows 

 Weight Exhibition Fowls sitting Matching Fowls Imparting 

 lustre to the Plumage Washing Fowls Hampers Travelling 

 Treatment on Return Washing the Hampers and Linings 

 Exhibition Points Technical Terms. 



